Wilhelm von Rümann

Wilhelm von Rümann was a prominent German sculptor, based in Munich.

Life

Rümann was born in Hanover. He studied from 1872 to 1874 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and from 1880 with Michael Wagmüller. From 1887 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 1891 he was raised to the nobility.
As well as numerous funerary monuments in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich, he created sculptures which are still to be seen in the city: monuments for Georg Simon Ohm, Max von Pettenkofer and Carl von Effner at the Maximiliansplatz, the Puttenbrunnen at the Peace Monument in the Prinzregentenstraße and the marble lions in front of the Feldherrnhalle.
Among his pupils were Bernhard Bleeker, Emil Julius Epple, Jakob Hofmann, Moissey Kogan, Martin Scheible and Alois Mayer.
He died in Ajaccio, Corsica, and is buried in the Nordfriedhof, Munich.

Chemnitz:
* Kaiser Wilhelm I: equestrian statue in the market place; sent for scrap after 1945
* Bismarck Statue, to the left; sent for scrap after 1945
* Moltke Statue, to the right; sent for scrap after 1945
Heilbronn:
* Kaiser Wilhelm I Monument, originally in front of the Harmonie Concert and Congress Centre, now in the Alter Friedhof in the Weinsberger Straße
* Robert Mayer Statue, in the market place
Munich:
* Monument of Georg Simon Ohm, 1895
* Funerary monument of Princess Ludovika of Bavaria
* Several statues of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, the Prince Regent, including one in the south-west of Siedlung Neuhausen
* Bust of Princess Theresa of Bavaria
* Bust of Wilhelm Bauer in the Deutsches Museum
* and many others
Nuremberg:
* Kaiser Wilhelm I equestrian statue, Egidienplatz, in front of the Pellerhaus
* Statue of Prince Regent Luitpold, station forecourt, removed in 1934, melted down in 1939
Stuttgart:
* Kaiser Wilhelm I equestrian statue
Bad Urach: bust of Bismarck in the Schloßstraße
Woerth, Alsace, France: Bavarian National War Memorial 1870, made 1889